Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan.
School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 40201, Taiwan.
Viruses. 2022 Oct 22;14(11):2316. doi: 10.3390/v14112316.
The benefits of hepatitis C virus (HCV)eradication for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients in Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage B/C remain uncertain.
In this hospital-based cohort study, all HCV-infected patients with BCLC stage B/C HCC during the period January 2017 to March 2021 were retrospectively screened, with 97 patients who had completed direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy being enrolled for final analysis.
In total, the sustained virological response (SVR) rate was 90.7%. In logistic regression analysis, progressive disease (PD) to prior tumor treatments was significantly associated with SVR failure (odds ratio 5.59, 95% CI 1.30-24.06, = 0.021). Furthermore, the overall survival (OS) rate was significantly higher in the SVR group than that in the non-SVR group (1-year OS: 87.5% vs. 57.1%, = 0.001). SVR was found to be an independent factor related to OS (hazard ratio 8.42, 95% CI 2.93-24.19, = 0.001). However, even upon achieving SVR, the OS rates in BCLC stage C or Child-Pugh stage B patients remained poor.
In BCLC stage B/C HCC, DAA could achieve a high SVR rate except in those patients with PD to prior HCC treatments. SVR was related to improvements in OS; therefore, DAA therapy should be encouraged for patients diagnosed without a short life expectancy.
对于巴塞罗那临床肝癌(BCLC)分期 B/C 的肝细胞癌(HCC)患者,消除丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)的益处仍不确定。
在这项基于医院的队列研究中,回顾性筛选了 2017 年 1 月至 2021 年 3 月期间所有患有 BCLC 分期 B/C HCC 的 HCV 感染患者,最终纳入了 97 例完成直接作用抗病毒(DAA)治疗的患者进行最终分析。
总的来说,持续病毒学应答(SVR)率为 90.7%。在逻辑回归分析中,先前肿瘤治疗的进展性疾病(PD)与 SVR 失败显著相关(优势比 5.59,95%CI 1.30-24.06, = 0.021)。此外,SVR 组的总生存率(OS)明显高于非 SVR 组(1 年 OS:87.5% vs. 57.1%, = 0.001)。SVR 是与 OS 相关的独立因素(风险比 8.42,95%CI 2.93-24.19, = 0.001)。然而,即使实现了 SVR,BCLC 分期 C 或 Child-Pugh 分期 B 患者的 OS 率仍较差。
在 BCLC 分期 B/C HCC 中,DAA 可实现高 SVR 率,但对于先前 HCC 治疗发生 PD 的患者除外。SVR 与 OS 改善相关;因此,应鼓励对预期寿命较短的患者进行 DAA 治疗。